There is no denying that the Cumbrians had enough chances and possession to have sown the game up by half time, but a home win would have been unjust on the Harriers, who came back twice to take a deserved share of the points.

Carlisle’s predicament, languishing towards the bottom of the Third Division, has not been helped with the bottom clubs finding some form and only three points now separate the bottom seven clubs. The Division certainly promises a nail biting final third to the season particularly as two teams will lose their league status this season.

Manager Roddy Collins was pleased with the way his players responded to Tuesday’s defeat.

“I was disappointed with the overall result.” he said. “But in comparison to Tuesday I’m happy enough with the performance. From the beating we had on Tuesday night I was very concerned with the overall situation but we’ve come back. We had good chances when we were 2-1 up and if we had got three I didn’t see us getting pulled back. We seem to need to get two up and it just doesn’t happen and the most disappointing thing for me is to concede off a set piece. When you work so hard over ninety minutes and then something we cover on the training pitch sees us concede to an unopposed header.”

Kidderminster were soon on top and Des Byrne had to make an important third minute block to deny Andrew Bishop’s goalbound effort.

Dean Bennett then shot narrowly wide and Bo Henriksen had the ball in the net but was ruled marginally offside.

Carlisle had hardly had a touch of the ball but on 7 minutes they took the lead against the run of play. Richie Foran was played into the left side of the box by Adam Rundle and managed to squeeze his shot under Fraser Digby’s body at his near post.

Craig Farrell then had the simplest of chances to extend the lead when Foran headed down Brian Shelley’s cross but he contrived to side foot his shot wide of a gaping goal.

Carlisle were made to pay on 30 minutes when Bennett’s long ball caught their defence flat footed and Henriksen ran clear to lob over the advancing Matty Glennon.

Farrell was again presented with another great chance but headed narrowly over from Des Byrne’s cross.

Four minutes before the break Carlisle deservedly regained the lead when Rundle latched onto Shelley’s long ball to outpace Adie Smith and score with a shot which deflected off Digby.

Mark Hudson and Will McDonagh both had shots blocked before Glennon had to make fine diving save to turn Scott’s header for a corner.

As Kidderminster went in search of an equaliser JJ Melligan headed over, Henriksen headed wide with only Glennon to beat and Shelley had to turn a dangerous Melligan cross for a corner.

With only eight minutes remaining all Carlisle’s good defensive work was to become meaningless as Scott met a routine Melligan corner to head home unchallenged.